An international collaboration of astronomers with the University of Warwick, I-JK, have discovered an
exoplanet, Next-Generation Transit Survey(NGTS)- 4b, the Forbidden Planet, in
the Neptunian Desert.
It is smaller than Neptune but 3 times the size
of the Earth.
The Research was led by Dr. Richard West
including Professor Peter Wheatley, Dr. Daniel Bayliss and Dr. James McCormac
from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at the University of Warwick.
This information was published in the Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society(MNRAS).
The Forbidden Planet with a mass of 20 Earth
masses, radius 20% smaller than Neptune and temperature of 1000 degree Celsius,
orbits around the star in only 1.3 days and its atmosphere as gases.
NGTS, situated at the European Southern
Observatory Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
